Counter Narratives and Controversial Crimes: the Wikipedia Article for the ‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’
Authors | Ruth Page |
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Publication date | 2014 |
DOI | 10.1177/0963947013510648 |
Links | Original |
Counter Narratives and Controversial Crimes: the Wikipedia Article for the ‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’ - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by Ruth Page.
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Narrative theorists have long recognised that narrative is a selective mode of representation. There is always more than one way to tell a story, which may alter according to its teller, audience and the social or historical context in which the story is told. But multiple versions of the ‘same’ events are not always valued in the same way: some versions may become established as dominant accounts, whilst others may be marginalised or resist hegemony as counter narratives (Bamberg and Andrews, 2004). This essay explores the potential of Wikipedia as a site for positioning counter and dominant narratives. Through the analysis of linearity and tellership (Ochs and Capps, 2001) as exemplified through revisions of a particular article (‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’), Author show how structural choices (open versus closed sequences) and tellership (single versus multiple narrators) function as mechanisms to prioritise different dominant narratives over time and across different cultural contexts. The case study poin...
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Page, Ruth. (2014). "[[Counter Narratives and Controversial Crimes: the Wikipedia Article for the ‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’]]". SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0963947013510648.
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